Noun
a wooden strip forming part of a fence

Verb
turn pale, as if in fear

Adjective S.
abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed"

Adjective S.
lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance"

Adjective S.
very light colored; highly diluted with white; "pale seagreen"; "pale blue eyes"

Adjective S.
not full or rich; "high, pale, pure and lovely song"

Adjective S.
(of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan li

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v. i.
Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.

v. i.
Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.

n.
Paleness; pallor.

v. i.
To turn pale; to lose color or luster.

v. t.
To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.

n.
A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket.

n.
That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade.

n.
A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively.

n.
A stripe or band, as on a garment.

n.
One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it.

n.
A cheese scoop.

n.
A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened.

v. t.
To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.

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Pale

Pale , a. [Compar. Paler ; superl. Palest.] [F. p'83le, fr. p'83lir to turn pale, L. pallere to be o look pale. Cf. Appall, Fallow, pall, v. i., Pallid.] 1. Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue. "Pale as a forpined ghost." Chaucer.

Speechless he stood and pale.

They are not of complexion red or pale.

2. Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon.

The night, methinks, is but the daylight sick; It looks a little paler.

&hand; Pale is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, pale-colored, pale-eyed, pale-faced, pale-looking, etc.

Pale

Pale, n. Paleness; pallor. [R.] Shak.

Pale

Pale, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Paling.] To turn pale; to lose color or luster. Whittier.

Apt to pale at a trodden worm.

Pale

Pale, v. t. To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.

The glowworm shows the matin to be near, And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.

Pale

Pale, n. [F. pal, fr. L. palus: cf. D. paal. See Pol a stake, and lst Pallet.] 1. A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket.

Deer creep through when a pale tumbles down.

2. That which incloses or fences in; a boundary; a limit; a fence; a palisade. "Within one pale or hedge." Robynson (More's Utopia). 3. A space or field having bounds or limits; a limited region or place; an inclosure; -- often used figuratively. "To walk the studious cloister's pale." Milton. "Out of the pale of civilization." Macaulay. 4. A stripe or band, as on a garment. Chaucer. 5. (Her.) One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it. 6. A cheese scoop. Simmonds. 7. (Shipbuilding) A shore for bracing a timber before it is fastened. English pale (Hist.), the limits or territory within which alone the English conquerors of Ireland held dominion for a long period after their invasion of the country in 1172. Spencer.

Pale

Pale, v. t. To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.

[Your isle, which stands] ribbed and paled in With rocks unscalable and roaring waters.

Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.

Paleness; pallor.

To turn pale; to lose color or luster.

To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.

A pointed stake or slat, either driven into the ground, or fastened to a rail at the top and bottom, for fencing or inclosing; a picket.

To inclose with pales, or as with pales; to encircle; to encompass; to fence off.